Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid’s Tale. 1st Anchor Books, New York, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1998
The Handmaid's Tale is a futuristic dystopian novel set in a near-future New England, in a strongly patriarchal, white supremacist, totalitarian theonomic state, known as the Republic of Gilead, which has overthrown the United States government. The central character and narrator is a woman named Offred, one of the group known as "handmaids", who are forcibly assigned to produce children for the "commanders" — the ruling class of men in Gilead.

Bennett, Brit. The Mothers: A Novel. Reprint, New York, Riverhead Books, 2017
It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother’s recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor’s son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it’s not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance—and the subsequent cover-up—will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth as Nadia hides attempts to hide her secret from everyone as she is tasked with making a decision that may impact the rest of her life.

Hemingway, Ernest. The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: Hills Like White Elephants (Short Story). New York, Scribner, 2017
The story focuses on a conversation between an American man and a young woman, described as a "girl," at a Spanish train station while waiting for a train to Madrid. The girl compares the nearby hills to white elephants. The pair indirectly discuss an "operation" that the man wants the girl to have, which is implied to be an abortion.

Oates, Joyce Carol. Book Of American Martyrs.New York, Ecco, 2017
In this striking novel, Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of two very different and yet intimately linked American families whose destinies are defined by their warring convictions. Luther Dunphy is an ardent Evangelical who believes he is carrying out God's will when he assassinates Augustus Voorhees, an abortion provider in his small Ohio town. Voorhees, the idealistic doctor who is killed, leaves behind a wife and children who are scarred and embittered by grief.

Picoult, Jodi. A Spark of Light. New York, Penguin Random House, 2018
The Center for women's reproductive health offers a last chance at hope - but nobody ends up there by choice. Its very existence is controversial, and to the demonstrators who barricade the building every day, the service it offers is no different from legalized murder. Now life and death decisions are being made horrifyingly real: a lone protester with a gun has taken the staff, patients and visitors hostage. Starting at the tensest moment in the negotiations for their release, certainties unwind as truths and secrets are peeled away, revealing the complexity of balancing the right to life with the right to choose.

Sr., DeBeers Roger. Murder Under White. Independently published, 2020
A pro-life congressman has been murdered in cold blood in the parking lot of a New Hampshire abortion clinic where is 17-year-old daughter is getting an abortion. Margarita Benica Arguello O'Brien a novice detective and Andy Pick a washed-up former government operative, are quickly assigned to the investigation. Who wanted the congressman dead and why? And are there other lives at risk? Abandoned by the authorities, the pair digs deeper into the case, only to uncover a vast web of corruption and lies as they race against the clock to find the killer. But the closer they are to solving the crime, the closer they are to becoming victims, themselves.

Zumas, Leni. Red Clocks. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 2019
In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. Five women. One question. What is a woman for?

In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these new barriers alongside age-old questions surrounding motherhood, identity, and freedom. This is a story of resilience, transformation, and hope in tumultuous — even frightening — times.